Japan's Nakai leads Olympic women's singles

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Japan leads in a tight race for the women's figure skating podium
The race for the podium in the women’s event is a tight one, with a crowded field including U.S. and Japanese skaters, as well as dark horse Adeliia Petrosian from Russia, who is competing as a neutral athlete after Russia was barred from competing as a country following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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Japan's Nakai leads Olympic women's singles ahead of free skating

How One Judge Almost Flipped The Olympic Figure Skating Podium

Adeliia Petrosian’s fall in the 2026 Olympic women's singles competition didn't stop a judge from awarding gold-medal marks. An inside look at the data and the enduring judging bias in figure skating.

Snowboarder Su Yiming delivers China's 1st gold of Winter Olympics while Japan grabs more medals

Snowboarder Su Yiming has delivered China its first gold medal of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics by winning the men's slopestyle final.
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Japan Takes Home Two More Olympic Medals In Women's Slopestyle Finals

Japan's Mari Fukada wins gold, and Kokomo Murase took home the bronze.
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Japan's 19 medals set Winter Olympic record

Japan has set a new record for the most medals in its Winter Olympic history by securing its 19th medal at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, surpassing the previous mark of 18 medals achieved at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Olympics Announces Historic Moments for Japan, Georgia Amid Winter Games

Japan won its first Olympic pairs gold and Georgia earned its first Winter Games medal at Milan Cortina 2026, rewriting figure skating history.

Japan Wins Pairs Skating Gold at Milan Winter Olympics

Most of the pairs in the competition struggled with mistakes—until Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara took to the ice and drew the only standing ovation of the evening.

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara win Japan’s first Olympic pairs gold with a world-record free skate

MILAN (AP) — Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara thought their chances of Olympic gold had gone by the wayside when the Japanese skaters made an uncharacteristic slip-up during their short program at the Milan Cortina Games.

Winter Olympics 2026: Japan's Ikuma Horishima crosses finish line backward — unintentionally — in chaotic race en route to silver

Japan's Ikuma Horishima botched his landing on his last jump in the men's round of 16 Sunday at the Milan Cortina Olympics, then bounced back up to ski backward over the finish line. And he still won.

History Makers - Miura and Kihara skate to Japan's first ever Olympic pairs title at Winter Olympics

Miura and Kihara set world record with 158.13 points in free programme; Georgia's Metelkina and Berulava win silver, Germany's Fabienne Hase and Volodin take bronze.